<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks -<div><br></div><div>We've tried many times to make the very simple story about Windows support on the XO clear. The conspiracy theorists don't really care. If you don't live in a fact-based universe, facts are irrelevant. Mitch is quite right, but we've said just about all of that before to little effect. OLPCNews and Slashdot thrive on controversy, not accurate reporting. I don't have much hope that we're going to say something now that makes the "OLPC has switched to Windows" crowd suddenly realize they're wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, Linux development is *far* more expensive for OLPC than Windows development is (and always has been), so if there were a way to convert all those Slashdot/OLPCNews typing fingers into volunteer coders it would be a nice improvement!</div><div><br></div><div>When we're finished clearing up the confusion about what OLPC is really doing (and has been doing for a long time), we can move on to proving that Apollo 11 really did land on the Moon, Barack Obama was indeed born in Hawaii, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Christoph<br> Derndorfer<<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Maybe I missed it before but I'm really very surprised that this is the<br> > first time I'm hearing this angle of the story in such detail. IMHO it would<br> > have made a lot of sense for OLPC to say exactly what Mitch wrote here when<br> > the Microsoft s*** first hit the fan in May 2008.<br> <br> </div>Ummm. ISTR public statements saying _exactly this_, though perhaps<br> with less technical detail. Everyone was blinded by the "OMG MS!"<br> effect that nobody actually applied neurons to the situation.</blockquote><div><br>These statements might have been made but very obviously OLPC and the aligned community (incl. myself) didn't do all that great a job of explaining what was really going on to the general public otherwise we wouldn't be in a situation today were a lot of people including many FLOSS enthusiasts still look at OLPC as having sold out to Microsoft in May 2008.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Around that time, I spoke in various public events and relayed exactly<br> that message. Some people understood the intent.<br> <br> That you don't know doesn't mean it hasn't been discussed...</blockquote><div><br>Hence why I wrote "Maybe I missed it..." ;-)<br><br>Anyway, crying over split milk doesn't really move us forward. Let's learn our lessons for the future and get back to work.<br> <br>Christoph<br></div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br> _______________________________________________<br>Devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>